Monday, March 18, 2013

Why Brain-Mapping Efforts Matter – Even If They Don’t Succeed | MIND Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network

Why Brain-Mapping Efforts Matter – Even If They Don’t Succeed | MIND Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network:

In 1956, a legion of famed scientific mindsdescended on Dartmouth College to debate one of mankind’s most persistent questions: Is it possible to build a machine that thinks? The researchers had plenty to talk about – biologists and mathematicians had suggested since the 1940s that nerve cells probably served as binary logic gates, much like transistors in computer mainframes.

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